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The Chair of the Financial System Inquiry intends to make public speeches at various stages during the Inquiry. There will be notice of upcoming speeches and other public events on this webpage. These events will open to the media. Otherwise, the Committee and Secretariat do not intend to make a running commentary on issues being considered by the Inquiry.

A publishing error has been identified in the printed and PDF versions of the Financial System Inquiry Final Report. The error is in Chart 9: Frequency that Interim Report observations were raised in second round submissions on page 289. The labels on the left hand axis were transposed. The updated PDF is now available. The chart on the […]

First let me thank CEDA for being our host, once again, as we release the Final Report of the Financial System Inquiry. I’d also like to recognise some important people. My fellow Committee members Kevin Davis, Craig Dunn, Carolyn Hewson and Brian McNamee, all of whom have put in an amazing effort to produce a […]

Financial System Inquiry Chair Mr David Murray AO will provide an update on the Financial System Inquiry, in a keynote address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on 8 December. For more information visit the CEDA website.

The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) has received over 6,300 submissions in response to the Inquiry’s Interim Report. Due to the large volume received, submissions are being published progressively. The first batch of submissions are now available on the FSI website.

Thank you to the National Press Club for the interest you have shown in today’s release of the interim report of the Financial System Inquiry. Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system has been central to the work of our Inquiry. If we had been asked to review Australia’s financial system in 2007, before the […]

The Financial System Inquiry today released its interim report. The report sets out the Committee’s views on the objectives of the financial system and the principles that should guide its development. It discusses the financial system from nine perspectives and makes 28 observations on how system is currently working. For each of these observations, it […]